On Sunday 24 Apr 2011 04:29:14 Peter Scott wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:08:49 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > > PLEASE (i am being nice but loud) get this off the advocacy list. it has > > nothing to do with it. > > I agree. The description of this list is: > > "A discussion list for Perl advocacy. There are usually success stories, > news stories about or involving Perl and discussions about how to make > Perl be accepted in the workplace." > > Not sure where else it belongs (email?) but the current thread is a > netiquette debate. I can't see a sufficient relationship to advocacy. > Feel free to create a perl-flames list :-)
Heh, well: 1. I suggested setting up a [email protected] or [email protected] (or maybe just [email protected]) where we move discussions that go tangential. Of course, I'm not a @perl.org mail admin (though I can create such list on Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, etc., but these places tend to have worse spam protection than @perl.org does[Spam].) 2. The focus of [email protected] has changed a bit since the original description that you quoted and now also covers some ways in which we can better promote Perl. And I believe that proper treatment of newcomers in the masters [email protected] mailing list is such an issue, and a very critical one. I'm aware of other mailing lists whose focus changed a bit or that various rules they had changed in time (for better, or for worse, naturally). 3. I nonetheless agree that it may be of relatively little interest to most people here, so I suggest that Ask (CCed to this mailing list) will set up a $SOMETHING-cafe mailing list on @perl.org. 4. It's possible Uri referred to the fact that I went out-of-line in the discussion of Ethics-vs.-Law, which is off-topic and inappropriate here, and I apologise for that (I got carried away). So let's drop this particular discussion. Regards, Shlomi Fish [Spam] - God bless the souls of the @perl.org mail admins who make sure the @perl.org mailing lists are almost entirely spam free, despite the fact one can send an E-mail to most lists without being subscribed. It's a lot of work, and often goes unnoticed. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Rethinking CPAN - http://shlom.in/rethinking-cpan You name it - COBOL does not have it. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
